Generate a UUID or GUID

scottfwalter · November 26, 2018, 8:39pm

Anyone have a way to generate a UUID or GUID in Shortcuts? I want to make a request to the Todoist api but I need a unique id generated.

Thanks in advance, Scott

speedmaster · November 26, 2018, 8:48pm

If you don’t have it by tonight I’ll take a crack at it, using one of these:
https://www.uuidgenerator.net/
http://uuid.xyzio.com/

scottfwalter · November 26, 2018, 9:09pm

Ahhh so I need to a third party service. I’ve also used Scriptable to generate a UUID using a callback. I was hoping there was a way built in to Shortcuts.

sylumer · November 26, 2018, 10:09pm

Would this suffice?

Shortcut - Generate UUID.

scottfwalter · November 26, 2018, 10:12pm

Slick trick on how to run a piece of JavaScript code. Thanks a bunch